VirtualBruges Museums - Memling Museum
St.-John's Hospital
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VirtualBruges Museums - Memling MuseumSt.-John's Hospital |
| The Memling Museum occupies part of the Old St.-John's Hospital (12th and 17th century), one of the oldest surviving mediaeval hospitals in Europe. The atmospheric and historic wards recall everyday life at the hospital by a wide variety of paintings, sculpture furniture and decorative art. The 17th-century pharmacy has been comletely preserved. In the church and the adjacent Cornelius Chapel, six authentic masterpieces by Hans Memling are on display, namely: Triptych of the Adoration of the Magi , The Lamentation over Christ , the Altarpiece of St.-John the Baptist and St.-John the Evangelist , The St.-Ursula Shrine , the Portrait of a Woman, or the Sibyl Sambetha, Virgin and Child and Martin van Nieuwenhove, and Descent from the Cross according to Rogier Van der Weyden. |
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| Opening hours | |
| April-September | October-March |
| 9.30 h - 17.00 h | 9.30 h - 12.30 h 14.00 h - 17.00 h Closed on Wednesday. |
| (The wards are temporarily closed for restoration.) All the museums are closed on the 1st of January, Ascension day (afternoon) and the 25th of December |
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